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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Trashing the Paris Agreement made for a great campaign prop at Donald Trump’s rallies, where the climate change accord was portrayed as a product of the out-of-touch, insufferable elites that Trump pledged to sweep from power.Now the landmark agreement, signed under President Obama, is fast becoming a nuisance for President Trump’s White House.It is putting the president under increasing pressure from places he may not have expected. His own secretary of State appears to see little upside in the president following through on the signature campaign vow to scrap it. His ambassador to the United Nations is hedging. And titans of industries that Trump promised would be unleashed to create new jobs once freed from the agreement’s constraints are openly hostile to Trump’s plan to put it through the shredder.Read more at Trump's Vow to Scrap the Paris Climate Change Accord Faces Skepticism from Corporations, GOP Moderates